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Did you know that Tennessee was once part of a great civilization? From roughly 1000-1450 AD the Mississippian Culture Empire was vast, stretching from Cahokia, IL in the north, down to the Gulf of Mexico in the south. From west to east it held sway ...

Before the first European traders came to North America, no Indian had slept on a wool blanket. They had never worn a cloth shirt or silver jewelry nor tasted rum. Their hunters had never used a musket or a steel knife nor had they ever used a flint ...